Originally Posted by Zebico

I agree with your assessment of the dnd community and how they act towards others.

From my little exposure of the dnd community, it's eye opening how they act. They clearly only want a strickly 100% dnd game. Many are rude to everyone that disagrees. Almost all responses are the same, like 'but this is dnd' and referencing a rule book like it's the Bible.


TTRPG's has been my favorite hobby for over 20 years, and never have I met more open, fun and cool group of people. No video game community comes close. And the rulebook is the bible *sarcasm*.

Originally Posted by Zebico


I have played hundreds of hours of DOS games and have exhausted all of the story, but play for the combat mostly. It would be nice to play another good game with fun mechanics and a new story. From my experience, dnd mechanics are boring, and don't work well in a video like this. I'm actually confused why people want a faster combat experience, because it's a strategy game. It's a bad idea to strip away mechanics to speed up combat.


I have many thousand hours in TTRPG's if we want to compare hours. Jokes aside, your comments betray the fact that you have never played DnD. Faster and stripped down mechanics? What are you talking about? DoS has more shallow mechanics than DnD.

Originally Posted by Zebico

From my understanding, dnd rules are not good enough in a video game for the majority. If that was true, then the more dnd like games would have sold better and gotten the rights to make BG3. It's not a fluke that DOS is the best selling rpg of its kind. Also, dnd table top can have house rules and people can change the rules to their liking. And the experience is completely different compared to a video game.


There hasn't really been faithful video game translation of 5e to my knowledge. Not by a proper dev at least. And yes people use house rules, but usually they do not change core concepts like classes.

Originally Posted by Zebico

After learning about dnd, I see many references and systems that are inspired by dnd, but changed for a better experience for a turn based, strategy rpg. The bedroll is the quick and easy version of resting. The source spells in DOS are the strong spells, but they don't make up the majority of spells. Most of dnd spells require rest points, because they are 'strong', but in a video game, one-shot-kill spells would make it too easy and boring. That's why rest points on weakened spells don't work. The whole experience is off and doesn't work well. I feel like it's fine to take inspiration from previous games, the good mechanics and ideas, and incorporate them into a new modern game.


I think the Vancian magic system worked well in the BG series so far. They are not modern games, but oh well. And I see no reason for why DnD spells would be too powerful in a video game. In a video game you at least have some limit to how smart the players can be when utilizing those spells.

It is a bit weird that you criticize the DnD community, all the while patronizing something you obviously know nothing about.